Abstract. In general, real objects are fractional-order systems and also dynamical processes taking place in them are fractional-order processes, although in some types of systems the order is very close to an integer order. So we consider dynamical system whose mathematical description is a differential equation in which the orders of derivatives can be real numbers. With regard to this, in the task of identification, it is necessary to consider also the fractional order of the dynamical system. In this paper we give suitable numerical solutions of differential equations of this type and subsequently an experimental method of identification in the time domain is given. We will concentrate mainly on the identification of parameters, including the orders of derivatives, for a chosen structure of the dynamical model of the system. Under mentioned assumptions, we would obtain a system of nonlinear equations to identify the system. More suitable than to solve the system of nonlinear equations is to formulate the identification task as an optimization problem for nonlinear function minimization. As a criterion we have considered the sum of squares of the vertical deviations of experimental and theoretical data and the sum of squares of the corresponding orthogonal distances. The verification was performed on systems with known parameters and also on a laboratory object.